Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Teachers part 2

Have you ever had a teacher who was so bad, so out of it, so clueless, un-understanding, and so horrible you just had a hard time believing he/she is a teacher? I have a teacher that perfectly meets these requirements, and then some, and then some more....URRRRGGGGGG she is not suited to be a teacher! A person who speaks English like a 6 year old, who refuses to repeat herself if someone can't understand her (which is a shockingly easy thing to do), a person who tries to dictate (for real, its really bad) the class, who is so paranoid that if you do so much as turn your head in your seat then you will get a "wooorneeeeeng, or detanshuu, or friday skooo". I mean, at first it was funny; I'd never seen a teacher so incompetent. Then, one of the vice principals came to the class to observe us (I personally think the teacher set this up), and since then she's been strutting around with a: screw the rules, I'm a teacher, I can give whatever grade I want and give as many detentions as I feel like giving kind of attitude. Can someone spell problems? With her logic of: you appear to talk, you get a detanshuu, I could inversely say, you appear to act of out place and unfair, you get fired. Hmmmm I wonder how many thousands of times she would have been fired thus far? And then she's like: We neee to priiide eeen our Chneeez porgrum, eet eez gwooing veru queeeckleee. She's saying like she is a good teacher who is causing this massive increase in the number of people who want to take Chinese, like its her awesome teaching skillz that are motivating this success and growth of the "Chneeez porgrum". As for me, because I do have a large Chinese background, I'm doing fairly well in this class (gradewise, not behavior-wise) because I spend hours making sure I do whatever homework she says to do and what she never mentions (she grades both), but there are some not-Chinese people in the class, and she expects so much of them but she is cruel. The other day she was like: Youuuu shuuu noo theeez woh, theeez eeeees aiilamanntory laivl. How can some know it considering they just started learning the language!?!? And for some reason, I seem to think that there should be to some extent a mutual respect existing between teachers and students. For my class its like: we talk and "interrupt (the only one who seems to notice these interruptions is her)", then we get treated like inferiors. We DON'T talk and we behave well, we are still treated like inferiors. FYI to the teacher: If you demand respect then you have to lead by example, not reverse psychology! This teacher needs a reality check.
Oh man it felt good getting this out of my system.